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Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life
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Manufacturer: Knopf
Author: Raymond Chandler
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Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life Description
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9781400041589
ISBN: 1400041589
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher: Knopf
Product Release Date: 2005-11-01
Studio: Knopf
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9781400041589
ISBN: 1400041589
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher: Knopf
Product Release Date: 2005-11-01
Studio: Knopf
Editorial Review of Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life
Raymond Chandler’s classic gumshoe Philip Marlowe is the quintessential American detective. His effortless masculinity, smoldering sexuality, and verbal fleetness remain the embodiment of cool. He liked liquor, women, and working alone. And, in a world defined by betrayal, mistrust, and double-dealing, Marlowe’s rough exterior belies an unshakable code of honor. Taken together, his observations and witticisms represent some of the most scathing and brilliant writing in crime fiction, and coalesce into a wonderfully alluring worldview: a vision of unswerving righteousness, accountability, and stylish conduct in a sea of turpitude and injustice.
Philip Marlowe’s Guide to Life is an elegant, A–Z compendium of Marlowe’s ever-more-relevant observations about crime, women, work, sex, good, evil, and life in the big city. Chandler’s genius transcended genre; though he seemed to single-handedly invent noir, his work ventured beyond it into an idiom all its own, and he left behind a legacy of grit and disarming beauty. Here is a brilliant and loving tribute to that legacy, sure to delight fans old and new.
Philip Marlowe’s Guide to Life is an elegant, A–Z compendium of Marlowe’s ever-more-relevant observations about crime, women, work, sex, good, evil, and life in the big city. Chandler’s genius transcended genre; though he seemed to single-handedly invent noir, his work ventured beyond it into an idiom all its own, and he left behind a legacy of grit and disarming beauty. Here is a brilliant and loving tribute to that legacy, sure to delight fans old and new.
Customer Reviews of Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."
Review: GREAT QUOTES. But I feel you would be better off reading them in the original text and picking out your own. Why should I think some guy has better taste than me ? Not likely. Some are missed and some others are not that great. The main problem with Chandler is he started writing late in life and just didn't write enough. No question he was THE BEST writer of hardboiled mystery detective fiction who ever wrote. So buy this it is good for a portable and write the quotes he missed on the blank pages.
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A small book of RC quotations.
Review: If you want a handy book of Raymond Chandler's quotations, this might be OK. I was a bit disappointed at it's small size and large price. Money would be better spent buying and reading RC's superb omnibus collection. Hardly a page goes by without a worthy quotation.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: 'The Genuine Article'
Review: Excellent, excellent book for 1940's one-liners and wise-guy cracks - West Coast wise guy, that is. This collection of Philip Marlowe quips and punch lines is THE authority on America's original 20th Century lone-wolf good-guy from L.A. An excellent idea for a gift, great conversation piece at a coktail party.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Stocking Stuffer
Review: For those lovers of hard boiled fiction, this slight book lets you flip through some of the best lines and passages from Chandler's novels. Easier than going back to your underlined copies. While a little pricey , the truth is worth it---on marriage:"For two people in a hundred,it's worth it."; on Hollywood:"In Hollywoord,anything can happen, anything at all."; on night:"It was night.The world outside the windows was a black world."
And for those you have yet to bite into the pleasure,this is a fine introduction.
Review Summary: "Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."
Review: GREAT QUOTES. But I feel you would be better off reading them in the original text and picking out your own. Why should I think some guy has better taste than me ? Not likely. Some are missed and some others are not that great. The main problem with Chandler is he started writing late in life and just didn't write enough. No question he was THE BEST writer of hardboiled mystery detective fiction who ever wrote. So buy this it is good for a portable and write the quotes he missed on the blank pages.
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A small book of RC quotations.
Review: If you want a handy book of Raymond Chandler's quotations, this might be OK. I was a bit disappointed at it's small size and large price. Money would be better spent buying and reading RC's superb omnibus collection. Hardly a page goes by without a worthy quotation.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: 'The Genuine Article'
Review: Excellent, excellent book for 1940's one-liners and wise-guy cracks - West Coast wise guy, that is. This collection of Philip Marlowe quips and punch lines is THE authority on America's original 20th Century lone-wolf good-guy from L.A. An excellent idea for a gift, great conversation piece at a coktail party.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Stocking Stuffer
Review: For those lovers of hard boiled fiction, this slight book lets you flip through some of the best lines and passages from Chandler's novels. Easier than going back to your underlined copies. While a little pricey , the truth is worth it---on marriage:"For two people in a hundred,it's worth it."; on Hollywood:"In Hollywoord,anything can happen, anything at all."; on night:"It was night.The world outside the windows was a black world."
And for those you have yet to bite into the pleasure,this is a fine introduction.